What If?
What If? is about our subtle awareness of possibilities. Our lives have the moments that actually happen, but we are also able to sense the thing that almost happened—and how things might have become slightly, or even drastically, different. It's about our awareness of something just outside of our periphery that we can never quite know.
The light-cone diagram toward the bottom is one way theorists map spacetime, showing the way light intersects at the present moment. I don't quite understand this idea cognitively, but it is beautiful in my mind—especially because there's a part called "elsewhere." It is a region that is there, but not experienced. This piece also includes a graphic showing the migration of a neuron that is particularly associated with the development of our vision. This represents us stretching our minds, our mental vision, to consider “what if?”
This piece was composed in Adobe Photoshop with scans of hand-made ink marks, photos, type, and graphics about biology and theories of time.